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The Boy Who Consumed Joy: A Pschological Thriller
Paperback
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Jan 23 2026
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Ivan Winston learns early that joy is fleeting. Abandoned by his parents and raised in quiet neglect, he grows up mistaking warmth for something that must be seized before it disappears. As a child, he tries to consume happiness literally. As a teenager, he learns to control it instead.
Moving between past and present, 'The Boy Who Consumed Joy' traces the making of a boy who was never taught how to be loved, only how to endure. Therapy gives him restraint but not peace. Connection offers hope, then reignites fear. What begins as survival slowly hardens into obsession, power, and a dangerous hunger for certainty.
This is not a story of sudden corruption, but of gradual unraveling. Of how neglect can be quieter than cruelty, and how being unseen can shape a person more deeply than punishment. Dark, psychological, and unsettling, this novel asks where responsibility begins, where understanding ends, and what happens when joy is chased too hard.
Some hunger does not fade with time.
It only learns new forms.
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